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"Killer looses appeal on lethal injection legality," is the AP report via Delaware Online.The Delaware Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed that the state's lethal injection policy was illegally adopted. In a two-page order released Tuesday, the court agreed that Delaware prison officials did not violate state law in adopting a new lethal injection protocol without allowing for public review or comment.The court said state law exempts Department of Correction policies and procedures from the public review and comment provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act. Earlier coverage of the issue in Delaware is here.

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).